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China Beach Season 4 |
| Episode 1 - [History Part I The Big Bang] |
| Details : In 1985 a reunion between Boonie and Dr. Richard stirs up memories of their first meeting in Vietnam in 1966. It also brings up questions for Boonie's 18-year-old adopted daughter Karen. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Wings Hauser | Christine Elise | Scott Jaeck | Colleen Flynn | Director : John Sacret Young | Writer : John Wells | |
| Air Date : Sep. 29, 1990 |
| Episode 2 - [History Part II-She Sells More Than Sea Shells] |
| Details : Still in 1985 Karen learns how her natural mother KC coped with her pregnancy by turning to Boonie for help. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Wings Hauser | Christine Elise | Conni Marie Brazelton | Scott Jaeck | Director : Mimi Leder | Writer : Carol Flint | |
| Air Date : Oct. 06, 1990 |
| Episode 3 - [You Babe] |
| Details : In Saigon in 1967 KC gives birth with McMurphy's help and gives the baby over to a foster mother. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Ellen Crawford | Richard Lineback | Director : Mimi Leder | |
| Air Date : Oct. 13, 1990 |
| Episode 4 - [Escape] |
| Details : While attending his father's funeral in 1985 Beckett reflects on his childhood and his tour of duty in Vietnam with the Graves Registration Unit. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Reiner Schöne | Peter Lewis | Scott Jaeck | Director : John Sacret Young | Director : John Wells | |
| Air Date : Oct. 27, 1990 |
| Episode 5 - [Fever] |
| Details : In 1970 McMurphy returns home to Lawrence Kansas to make peace with her mother and try to settle down into civilian life but finds both goals beyond her grasp. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Penny Fuller | Writer : Lydia Woodward | Director : Diane Keaton | |
| Air Date : Nov. 03, 1990 |
| Episode 6 - [Juice] |
| Details : In 1972 Dr. Richard and his nurse take a romantic trip to Florida where they run across a hard-livng McMurphy working at an orange-juice factory. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Gavan O'Herlihy | Colleen Flynn | Director : John Sacret Young | Writer : John Sacret Young | |
| Air Date : Nov. 10, 1990 |
| Episode 7 - [One Giant Leap] |
| Details : In 1969 China Beach watches from afar as the first men land on the moon. McMurphy simmers jealously as Dr. Richard falls for a new nurse. Beckett entertains a group of USO singers in his G.R.U. hut. A disturbed Boonie meets with a tragic accident. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Vanessa Bell Calloway | Morgan Weisser | April Grace | Gloria Reuben | Director : Michael Katleman | Writer : Josef Anderson | Director : John Sacret Young | Director : John Wells | |
| Air Date : Nov. 17, 1990 |
| Episode 8 - [One Small Step] |
| Details : Suddenly back home and missing one leg Boonie begins a slow and painful re-entry into civilian life with the comfort of a loving nurse. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Bernard White | Sarah Buxton | Michael Rapaport | Michael Bowen | Director : Steve Dubin | Writer : John Wells | |
| Air Date : Dec. 01, 1990 |
| Episode 9 - [The Call] |
| Details : Frankie returns to Chicago in 1969 to try her hand at being a standup comic but runs into the tragically funny trial of the infamous Chicago Seven. Back in Vietnam McMurphy tries to help Dodger convince some Montagnard tribes people to evacuate their homes. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Viveca Lindfors | Michael Harris | Director : Robert Ginty | |
| Air Date : Dec. 08, 1990 |
| Episode 10 - [I Could Have Danced All Night But Didn't] |
| Details : McMurphy meets a sympathetic drummer at a 1983 wedding and recalls the 1969 wedding of Lila and Sarge Pepper as well as the end of her relationship with Dr. Richard. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Adam Arkin | Director : Michael Fresco | |
| Air Date : Jun. 04, 1991 |
| Episode 11 - [100 Klicks Out] |
| Details : The imminent fall of Saigon reunites KC with her daughter as she struggles to get the little girl out of Vietnam and safely to America and a waiting Boonie. In the 1980s a cynical McMurphy tries to prevent further child abuse in New Mexico. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Randolph Mantooth | Jesse Borrego | Shay Astar | Director : Mimi Leder | |
| Air Date : Jun. 11, 1991 |
| Episode 12 - [The Always Goodbye] |
| Details : The arrival in Bangkok in 1969 of a hard-drinking McMurphy and a young private disrupts KC's carefully developed new life and brings back unwanted memories. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : David Newsom | Writer : Lydia Woodward | Director : Gary Sinise | |
| Air Date : Jun. 18, 1991 |
| Episode 13 - [Quest] |
| Details : In 1976 McMurphy helps KC re-enter the country and find her daughter before heading out to Montana to visit Dodger who's coping with a disabled father and raising his son Archie alone. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Joseph Gordon-Levitt | Robert Knepper | Richard Jaeckel | Shay Astar | Director : John Sacret Young | Writer : John Sacret Young | |
| Air Date : Jun. 25, 1991 |
| Episode 14 - [Rewind] |
| Details : In 1985 Karen begins a videotape project interviewing China Beach veterans about their experiences in Vietnam and their memories of her natural mother. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Amy Steel | Wings Hauser | Christine Elise | Shay Astar | Director : Mimi Leder | Writer : Carol Flint | Writer : John Wells | |
| Air Date : Jul. 09, 1991 |
| Episode 15 - [Through And Through] |
| Details : In 1985 an increasingly angry Colleen torments herself and her husband until she discovers she's suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome and seeks help to deal with the memories of her final weeks in Vietnam. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Adam Arkin | Vondie Curtis-Hall | Ford Rainey | Director : Mimi Leder | Writer : Carol Flint | |
| Air Date : Jul. 16, 1991 |
| Episode 16 - [Hello Goodbye Part 1] |
| Details : McMurphy agrees to attend a China Beach reunion planned by Boonie and recalls her last day in Vietnam and travels to Washington DC with the others to visit the Vietnam Memorial. Karen comes to terms with the ghost of her absent mother KC. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Adam Arkin | John Slattery | Christine Elise | Joseph Whipp | Colleen Flynn | Director : John Sacret Young | Writer : John Wells | |
| Air Date : Jul. 22, 1991 |
| Episode 17 - [Hello Goodbye Part 2] |
| Details : McMurphy agrees to attend a China Beach reunion planned by Boonie and recalls her last day in Vietnam and travels to Washington DC with the others to visit the Vietnam Memorial. Karen comes to terms with the ghost of her absent mother KC. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Adam Arkin | John Slattery | Joseph Whipp | Colleen Flynn | Director : John Sacret Young | Writer : John Wells | |
| Air Date : Jul. 22, 1991 |